Joanna Groves Psychotherapy

05/11/2024

Tickets are on sale… NOW 🌟🤩🌟 See you there?

What a line up we have for you.....

Karen Minikin, Adam McGowan, Rory Lees-Oakes, Ian Tomlinson, Andy Willians, Isa Delannoy, Joanna Groves.

Tickets are on sale at:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theellesmerecentre/1435074?

Please note that once you have purchased your ticket, workshop selection will take place in the future. You will be emailed nearer the time.

Event Details:
Date: Saturday 29th March 2025
Venue: Canham Turner, University of Hull
Theme: Context, Community and Connections

Panel discussions, bookstall, sponsors, stalls by local mental health organisations, placement opportunities.

Price : £95 (inc VAT)
Includes : Refreshments, lunch, goody bag, conference programme.

02/11/2024

What a delight to be a part of the Humber Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference in March ‘25. Tickets on sale… VERY SOON ✨ Who’s coming?

Announcement number three and we are delighted to welcome Joanna Groves for her first visit to the Humber Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference.

Joanna's workshop is entitled "Psychotherapy and Grief Tending - Honouring the vitality of our community".

Together we’ll explore how personal and collective grief can strengthen community and inspire collective action. Participants are invited to get curious into how we can co-create grief tending spaces that sustain positive change for individuals, the collective, and the broader communities we live and work in.

Practitioners of all modalities and experience are welcome. You’ll gain insights into how our diverse perspectives and experiences of grief and loss foster deeper connections, broadens learning, and fuels change. You’ll also learn how holding space for the inevitable ruptures, inequalities, and grief that arise within an organisation, can transform these challenges into opportunities for healing and growth.

Joanna’s work with couples and individuals, exploring the edges of loss and love in relationships and life, led her to delving into the field of grief tending and rituals. Training in grief rituals and soul therapy in the US and UK since 2020, Joanna now integrates these themes into her life and work. She offers regular grief circles both online and in-person near Manchester. Joanna is a CTA (P), and a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and workshop presenter. She’s the co-director of the Affinity Centre in Manchester.

One of the conference team has experienced a version of this workshop recently, and it really is a revolutionary, emotional experience. Thanks Joanna for coming to join us at the University of Hull, on Saturday 29th March 2025. We can't wait to welcome you.

Tickets on Sale Early November. Details to follow.

28/01/2021

08/12/2020

Come join me over on Relationful 🤩

IF YOU WANT TO BE TRULY HEARD, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAY YOU TALK 👌🏼

Do you feel listened to when you talk with your partner?

Maybe you put more energy in when you feel like your partner isn’t listening to you? Like finding new ways to say the same thing, or planning the ideal moment to tell them important things

Or maybe you go into your shell 🐚 and withdraw

👇🏼Here’s how I work with couples in relationship therapy & coaching...

⏰ availability... is your partner emotionally available, ready & willing to listen to you? Best way to know that is to ask “is now a good time to talk about (...)?”

✅ be a safe partner... soften your face, watch your body language, facial expressions, voice tone, and keep your partner ok as you speak

🥊 check your reactivity... get to know The Four Horsemen and how you get defensive & reactive in your conversations

👁 talk about own experiences, your own thoughts, feelings ... often we focus on the other. Make sure you’re talking about yourself

📽 The Story I Tell Myself is probably one of the most underrated phrases out there. In it’s everything ✨ Use it liberally to own the stories you tell yourself about what you believe to be true

🌎 🌍 Make space for your partner... no one likes being talked at. Know that not agreeing is ok - two different opinions can peacefully co-exist

💾 SAVE for a reminder

📣 SHARE with your community

❤️ LIKE if this resonates for you

04/12/2020

Are you following me over on Relationful yet? I’m talking about all things relationships and running a collaborative challenge in the run up to Christmas 🎄🎄🎄

You’ll also find me over on Instagram 🎅🏼

WE SEE THE WORLD AS WE ARE, NOT AS IT IS, BECAUSE IT IS THE I BEHIND THE EYE THAT DOES THE SEEING ✨

Conscious love means doing things for the benefit of the relationship

It means paying in to the Space Between with awareness and intentionality

You and your partner each have your own worlds 🌎 🌍 with your unique needs, wants, dreams & desires made up from your childhood and adulthood experiences

Imagine a river running between your worlds ... the river is your relationship

What you each put into your river, impacts you both ✨You are equally responsible for keeping the river clean & flowing so that your co-created eco system can thrive

I say it this way, you are each 100% responsible for your 50%

💛 What do you think about the idea of conscious love? 👇🏽👇🏼👇🏾 Let me know in the comments

16/09/2020

How to maintain your sense of identity in lasting relationships 💫

HOW DO YOU STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF AND BE IN A LOVING RELATIONSHIP?

💫 Can you have both?

Many of us lose a sense of self in relationship 🌻 It’s easy to get disoriented when you’ve likely taken on many different roles, and grown & changed over time

⏰ Then one day wonder you wonder...”where did I go?” 🤷‍♀️

This is a natural part of lasting relationships 💫 Re-connecting ...or maybe even finding yourself for the 1st time ... doesn’t mean you’re in the wrong relationship OR that change has to threaten your partnership

With the vast amount of information out there about self-discovery and relationships you’d be in good company if sometimes you feel a little overwhelmed and lost 🗺

Taking space to reflect on how you see yourself in relationship can give you lots of insights as to how you’ve begun to label yourself ... or been labelled by others & society 🧐

💫 CAN YOU HAVE A SENSE OF SELF AND A CLOSE LOVING RELATIONSHIP?

I think so ... if you’re willing to give yourself the space and time you deserve. That’s why I coach women who want BOTH

✨You are more than your relationship
👇🏽👇🏿👇🏼 do you agree? Let me know below

28/08/2020

Come follow me over on Relationful 👌🏼 and if you’re on Instagram you’ll find me talking about all things relationships over on there too ⭐️

CO-CREATING RITUALS IS A BASIC BUT POWERFUL INGREDIENT FOR CONNECTION

🧂You know when you add seasoning to your favourite dish and all of a sudden you get that ZING👌🏼 (...ooops distracted: 😆 now I’m thinking about mustard on 🌭🌭🌭)

Your relationship is the same 👌🏼Sometimes all you need is a few basic ingredients to make your connection ZING again

Good to know huh 😁 Creating connection in your relationship doesn’t need to be hard work

Lots of couples who work with me get overwhelmed with the thought of addressing the divide in their relationship. Like...where do you even start?!?! 🤪

The answer is always...start with getting re-acquainted with the EXPERIENCE of being connected 🌱Connection grows from connection 🌳

In my relationship, we are both creative and great problem solvers ✅ and that can lead to anxiety because there’s always more to do, plans to make, projects to get started, things to attend to...

In our couplehood, an important ritual has become Joy of The Day ⭐️

Before lights out we each share 1️⃣ thing that’s been joyful that day. It’s usually simple...”felt good about something at work, enjoyed my morning walk, loved spending time with a friend, having a laugh with the kids, great call with my dad, something I’m proud I did...” you get the idea 💡

The importance is this, each day for the past 3yrs I have heard myself share a joyful experience with Ian. And he shares in that joy with me ⭐️

For an anxious-worrier like me, this ritual is a small moment of emotional co-regulation in my day. Joy of The Day has been transformational

I have a lived experience of sharing things with Ian...so I’m more likely to share other things with him too. Over time, the focus has shifted to seeing the good stuff and sharing what’s going well in our life together 👍

I’m still an anxious-worrier AND I’m more appreciative of the flip-side too

👣 Don’t underestimate the value of small, simple, powerful steps to experience the connection together daily

WHAT’S YOUR JOY OF THE DAY?
Let me know below 👇🏽👇🏻👇🏿
SHARE to keep the joy growing 🌱

26/06/2020

Are you following me over on Relationful yet? 🙌

DID YOU KNOW...

Did you know that people in healthy relationships give 20 positive interactions to every negative? And that in times of stress and conflict they still maintain a balance of 5 positives to every negative

You know I’m all about the relationship you have with yourself as well as with others, so I’m including SELF-TALK in this too 🌟

How many positives do you give to yourself day-to-day vs the negative stuff that goes on? And in times of stress...what’s the positive - negative ration then?

Building a culture of appreciation in your inner world, and in relationship with others has a direct impact on your health and wellbeing

🌟 APPRECIATION IS A NATURAL STRESS / ANXIETY BUSTER 🌟

Spread some Friday love and tag someone who needs to here this today 🙌

25/06/2020

🌟 GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT WORKSHOP
🌟 My absolute favourite testimonial in the 5yrs I’ve been running these workshops for couples.

🌟 Pure joy to see this couple transform over the weekend!
..now available online. Save the date 12th & 19th September 💞

18/06/2020

Therapist pals...This is a big bit fabulous. See you there? 😁

Guide to Working with Transference in Therapeutic Relationship Online via Zoom - Reduced price only £40 Facilitator Helen Rowland PTSTA (P) Who is it aimed at? Practitioners at any level who want to extend their understanding and skills in working with transference. Course Outline An important part...

15/06/2020

Are you following me on yet? 🤗

WE HAVE TO START NORMALISING RELATIONSHIPS 🌟

This is why I started Relationful…Here’s my WHY

Inside my therapy office all sorts of people talk about their struggles with relationships. My practice is diverse in so many ways. I have deliberately made it so. PHYSIS, the desire and drive to grow and heal, is not discriminative

Often, I am the only person to hear the pain of disconnection, the endless self-criticism and questioning, the shame and despair at feeling powerless

I am very good at my job and I support many individuals and couples to become empowered in their relationship with themselves and others. I see change, and I am a part of that. But it is NOT ENOUGH!

Psychotherapy is a luxury item. There I said it (…ooooh that feels good 🤗).

In the UK, I am part of a predominantly white middle-class profession. TRUE, psychotherapy and coaching is often an essential ‘luxury item’ but it is accessible to the few and I want to contribute to the many

WE HAVE TO START NORMALISING RELATIONSHIPS 🌟

It is normal to…

• work hard at your relationships
• make demands
• not know how to communicate
• feel lonely
• do all sorts of f**kery to avoid stuff
• be disappointed
• feel like you’ll never be enough
• be head over heels in love
• argue and bicker in endless cycles
• have your needs met
• be unhappy
• realise the other is impossible to please!
• not know what your needs are!
• lack intimacy & connection
• struggle
• have a good relationship
• avoid conflict & arguments to keep the peace
• over adapt so much you lose yourself
• get things wrong
• not have s*x

This list is off the top of my head. Me and Ian work hard at our relationship. We have dialogued about all of these things things and continue to do so.

I’m not saying these things are ok or good for us…but they are a normal part of relationships so LET’S START THE CONVERSATION

WHAT ELSE WILL YOU ADD TO THE LIST?